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Shane Nickerson (born August 27, 1971) is an American television producer, actor & writer from Fairfax, Virginia. He is best known as the executive producer of Rob & Big, Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness.

Career
Shane Nickerson began producing television since 2000 as a segment producer on the first season of CBS’ Big Brother. In 2002, he continued his career at MTV, producing Rich Girls, with Ally Hilfiger, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, with Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, and Cameron Diaz’ eco-travel documentary series, Trippin'.

In the Spring of 2005, he was hired to help punch up a comedic reality pilot featuring Rob Dyrdek, then tentatively titled Rob and Big Black. Working closely together, Shane and Rob built Rob & Big into one of MTV’s most popular and beloved comedy series in the network’s history. After three successful seasons of Rob and Big, the two continued the adventure with the equally successful Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory. Set in a 25,000 square foot warehouse, Fantasy Factory pushed the genre of loosely outlined improvisational comedy to unprecedented success. It ran for seven strong seasons, and continues to be a ratings staple of MTV programming. During that time, Shane and Rob also created the viral video hit series Ridiculousness, also for MTV. Now about to enter its seventh season, Ridiculousness airs in countries around the world and has become one of the top rated juggernauts for MTV programming.

Shane has created and produced content for MTV, Comedy Central, Microsoft, MTV2, XBOX, YouTube, Funny or Die and many others. He has written, directed, produced, and performed in almost every medium. Together with Rob Dyrdek, he has made what most consider, some of the most memorable and successful television in MTV’s history.

Comedy & Acting
Shane began his comedy training at world famous Groundlings Theater, eventually earning a place as a writer/performer in their legendary Sunday Company alongside some of the industry’s most successful comedic performers. His improv and sketch background paved the way to a very successful career as a commercial actor and voice over actor. He has appeared in dozens of national commercials for products like Bud Light, AT&T, and Wells Fargo, and has recently branched out into directing commercials for companies like Kraft and 5 Hour Energy.

Superjacket Productions
Shane has partnered with Rob Dyrdek to continue creating content together under Superjacket Productions. Superjacket, inked a development deal with MTV to continue developing high standards of production, sensibility, and most importantly, comedy for programming on their network.

Personal Life
Shane is married to wife, Elisa Nickerson, and they have three children. Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson came together to Los Angeles in their early twenties to pursue theatrical performing arts.